Let Me Finish Quotes

“nothing to do with the George Washington Bridge and everything to do with the fact that Baroni had been in place for four years, holding a plum position that paid $290,000 a year plus a housing allowance. I was replacing him with my policy chief, former assistant US attorney Deb Gramiccioni”
― Chris Christie, Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics

“I tell them how extraordinary my mother was. To look at her child on her deathbed and say, “There’s nothing left unsaid between us”—and to really believe that. No untold stories. No buried secrets. What an extraordinary way to go out.”
― Chris Christie, Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics

“This takes a keen mind, a calm disposition, vast experience, and unquestioned integrity. Flynn was lacking three, possibly four of those categories.”
― Chris Christie, Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics

“Why did you give him advice to drop out?” I asked him. “You knew he wouldn’t drop out.” He looked at me with the most serious face I have ever seen. Said Reince: “Because when they write the book about this, I want to be on record.” Now I guess he is.”
― Chris Christie, Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics

“our post–New Hampshire phone call really sealed my view of him. He asked how I was doing. I told him, okay, considering. “You know what happened to you, don’t you, Chris?” he said. I told him I didn’t. “God wanted you to play right field, and you insisted on playing shortstop. No matter how many times God told you to play right field, you insisted on playing shortstop. And last night, you went out to shortstop, and the ball went through your legs.” Right there, I understood why”
― Chris Christie, Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics

“The last time we’d talked explicitly about my running for president was in 2014, when I was raising money for the Republican Governors Association. Mary Pat and I went to see him at Trump Tower, and he wrote a check for $250,000.”
― Chris Christie, Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics